Welcome to the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast! This show is for young professionals, who want to know how to thrive in their careers without needing 15, 20, or 25 years of experience! Learn from Brandon Klein, a proven leader in the tech world, who has driven success in companies ranging from startups to large organizations. Inside each episode, you’ll take a walk with Brandon as he pulls back the curtain and shares the biggest lessons and strategies he’s learned to drive success in his career. No fancy mic, no super long episodes, just a quick walk with Brandon every day.
On episode 215 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the secret behind the superpower of reducing the level of energy consumed by day-to-day decisions.
On episode 214 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the power of putting yourself in the shoes of company leadership to quality check each decision you make.
On episode 213 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares his perspective on the considerations that any person looking for the right job should make before accepting a job offer
On episode 212 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the importance of respecting your colleagues personal time by holding off work communications until the next working hours.
On episode 211 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a table-stakes strategy for maximizing the quality of communication in a group setting when you’re asked a question.
On episode 210 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares how recognizing existing forms of positivity within an organization, can lead to more positivity.
On episode 209 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon sheds light on the power of listening to other’s ideas instead of trying to come up with all of them yourself.
On episode 208 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon dives into the negative impacts of operating with an ego in your career.
On episode 207 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick checkpoint which is valuable to introduce in your workflow for ensuring that expectations for output are effectively set before beginning to execute.
On episode 206 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a low-effort tactic that every professional who uses email and instant messenger, has to quickly build rapport with others in their career.
On episode 205 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the ultimate gesture of providing people with time back in their day.
On episode 204 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon brings clarity to some of the common, yet counterproductive ways which we put our work ethic on display, along with a more effective alternative.
On episode 203 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon pulls back the curtain on one of the most frequently broken cardinal rules when it comes to communicating with colleagues on an instant messenger platform.
On episode 202 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a proven strategy for getting large amounts of people within an organization to adopt the resources which you provide them to help accomplish their goals.
On episode 201 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the critical element of every email, which is sent with the expectation of a specific action being taken by others.
On episode 200 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick strategy for how to more effectively approach data to maximize its impact.
On episode 199 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares how you can multiply the impact of every success strategy that you learn in your career.
On episode 198 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon explains how communities which are aligned with your role can be an incredible source for inspiration and guidance towards best-practices.
On episode 197 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks about how the idea of needing tools within your tool belt which don’t currently exist, can hold you back from taking action and adding value now.
On episode 196 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the moment every professional has experienced with jumping to a conclusion and how to mentally check yourself with an alternative path.
On episode 195 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon goes all in on sharing the secret which will enable any motivated professional to unlock the full potential of feedback that constantly awaits them within their organizations.
On episode 194 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the important step of accounting for who is best equipped to carry specific elements of a task/initiative before committing or executing.
On episode 193 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the importance of being present across the organization and one of the easiest ways to do this tomorrow.
On episode 192 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the difference between lagging and leading indicators and what each mean to your success
On episode 191 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a very tactical strategy for making sure that the people you work with never feel as if you’re not a reliable resource to reach out to for help.
On episode 190 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through how sharing the vision that you have for your area of the organization can transform your career.
On episode 189 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the commonly overlooked differences between when and how we approach learning how to do something new.
On episode 188 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon gives you an inside look at the conversation he was lucky enough to overhear which is relevant to every professional succeeding.
On episode 187 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down the two paths to becoming a trustworthy person within an organization and the differences between the fast route and the slow route.
On episode 186 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a foundational principle for preserving your time, energy, and quality of work that he learned when taking a software development course.
On episode 185 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon pulls back the curtain on the one statement he has used time and time again in his career to maximize the relationships that he has with his leaders.
On episode 184 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon debunks the misconception that you need the best “weapons” in your arsenal in order for you to accomplish your goals and drive success for an initiative.
On episode 183 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a proven perspective that enables you to align whatever plan you thought was best fit for an initiative, with a different plan which was decided upon by a larger group.
On episode 182 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down how the plan you originally created to put you in the best position for success, can be the tool which also enables you to emerge from the often clouded state of mind you fall into when executing the plan
On episode 181 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares the one thing that he wishes someone told him on DAY ONE of his career that can ensure you’re on the quickest path to success.
On episode 180 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a major indicator that you’re passionate about what you do in your career... which is a MAJOR WIN!
On episode 179 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon debunks the notion that you have to be busy checking boxes, to be working.
On episode 178 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon discusses the importance of regularly evaluating your own performance to ensure that you are always bringing your “A-Game” and creating the space to course correct where needed.
On episode 177 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon provides insight into an actionable perspective surrounding the moment to realize you feel unfulfilled in your career and might even be considering a career change.
On episode 176 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon provides a breakdown of what needs to be done in order for you to take something which you see someone else doing, which you like, and make it your own.
On episode 175 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares an optimal way to making decisions within an organization.
On episode 174 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon creates a clear distinction between making a near-sighted decision and following your gut instinct about the long-term decision that your gut is pulling at you to make.
On episode 173 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shared a straight path forward for when you find yourself frustrated executing a plan that just doesn’t seem to be producing results.
On episode 172 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon breaks down a common misconception that professionals have about “giving up” as a result of the narrative that society has engrained in our heads over the years around “never giving up”.
On episode 171 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a plug-and-play strategy for ensuring that people who you communicate with feels as supported as possible to take action in the face of not-so positive circumstances.
On episode 170 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon talks through the importance of maintaining the relationships, which you once placed a high value on in your career, long after you leave the organization that they were started at.
On episode 169 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a recent story which highlights the importance of validating that what you have built to deliver value, actually delivers it.
On episode 168 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares a quick rule of thumb for communicating in a way that doesn’t cause others to become confused or frustrated with you.
On episode 167 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon completely opens up the best career advice he has ever publicly shared for young professionals who want to experience rapid growth in their careers.
On episode 166 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares his look on the unspoken reality that presents itself within an opportunity the provokes the thought of failure.
On episode 165 of the Walks With a Young Professional Podcast, Brandon shares and completely dismissed a saying that you frequently hear in your career that does nothing but steer you away from success.